[can somebody out there help me!]

Dennis Raphael:

Please forgive me, but what's wrong with a newspaper printing stories,
features or commentary about obesity, physical activity, and fat as well as
stuff about the real and obvious impact of socio-economic conditions on
health? Surely, all are legitimate, not mutually exclusive topics.

Without some exercise and attention to diet in recent years, it's fair to
say one overpaid, underworked and comfortable news ombud I know would still
weigh 190 lb., be incapable of running up a flight of stairs, and likely be
living a life sentence on prescription drugs for high blood pressure.

I'm not so quick to dismiss anecdotal evidence, when it's my anecdote. Nor
do I dismiss what you preach.

Regards,

Don Sellar
Ombud

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"Ombudsman, The Toronto Star" <[log in to unmask]>


The problem is that there is NEVER - NEVER - NEVER any coverage of
non-lifestyle factors.  For everytime I get my once a year op-ed piece in
the Star,  there are 1200 stories about how your poor health is your own
fault. And, yes Judy Gerstel did write a column about the Toronto Charter.

DRUGS, BREAKTHROUGHS (as you wrote about), DIET, FOOD, DIET, TOBACCO, FOOD,
DIET, GENES, DIET, TOBACCO

Need I go on?

The lack of coverage of the latest WHO document is another example of the
unwillingness of reporters to do more work than  read a press release put
out by a medical faculty or drug firm..

That is the problem!.

Social determinants of health. The solid facts
Edited by Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot
Second edition
Available on-line at http://www.euro.who.int/document/e81384.pdf

Dennis Raphael

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